After running around the empties for the Beech Mountain railroad, A&O pulls the empties past the interchange track to shove them off for pick up.

Deep in the mountains of West Virginia you’ll find the Beech Mountain railroad. One of the most remote railroad operations in the state gives us this view of an Alco pulling empty coal hoppers t... (more)

MARC P875 runs through the Eastern Panhandle countryside at speed before making its final stop in Martinsburg, WV.

Arriving at the interchange point with the BEEM railroad, A&O 3807 leads 80 empties into Alexander along the Buckhannon River so the empty coal hoppers can be delivered for loading at Carter Roag ... (more)

BEEM alco number 114 is staging awaiting empty coal hoppers to be delivered by A&O. This unit will take a cut of empties to the load out several miles down the track and return for another cut whi... (more)

Western Maryland Scenic has become at least a temporary home for two WM veterans, rebuilt SD35 7436 and SD40 7471. I was hoping one of them would be assisting 1309 on my trip, but alas, it was the... (more)

Topping the grade at "Briden", CSX M317 is in the 8th notch struggling to make the grade.

The former B&O hotel and station in Grafton is greeted by CSX’s B&O themed office car special arriving at what is known as the “platform”. This almost gives us a view of what things were lik... (more)

100 loads of coal bound for Baltimore Piers for over seas crosses U.S. Highway 50 on the former B&O bridge in Clarksburg.

Returning from their remote interchange with the A & O the day’s freight will stop briefly stop then proceed toward Elkins to switch a salt warehouse and a quarry. A little phonied up but 70-ye... (more)

Ns 9970 leads a southbound intermodal train over Kenova Wv.

NS 4000 rounds a bend at Naugatuck while hustling a Westbound stack train up The Kenova.

B&O scheme on the B&O! Sporting its beautiful Baltimore & Ohio Railroad scheme, CSX’s Office Car Special crosses the Potomac River from Maryland into West Virginia westbound on the CSX Cumber... (more)

Former C&O 4421 and a former C&O caboose sit in Hinton yard along with a Seaboard Coast Line gondola. Still holding on in 1986 is a steam era water pipe stand.

Former MILW, masquerading as C&O but nevertheless a F unit pulling a real local freight headed east to Elkins to switch a salt terminal and a quarry.